dorm

noun
\ ˈdȯrm How to pronounce dorm (audio) \

Definition of dorm

Examples of dorm in a Sentence

We all lived in the same dorm during our sophomore year.

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Teresa chose to end her series of videos with a photo that was taken from behind that featured her daughters hugging and snapping a photo together in Gia’s newly completed dorm room. Joelle Goldstein, PEOPLE.com, "Teresa Giudice Helps Daughter Gia Move Into Her Rutgers Dorm as She Drops Her Off for First Time," 30 Aug. 2019 McKenna Barnett, a sophomore at the University of Minnesota from Jacksonville, Fla., helps students wheel bins of possessions to their Pioneer Hall dorm rooms during move-in day in Minneapolis on Monday, Aug. 26, 2019. John Autey, Twin Cities, "Photos: Wet welcome for new UMN students," 26 Aug. 2019 The quintessential college experience of getting pizza delivered to your dorm room is about to get a high-tech upgrade. Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, "Thousands of autonomous delivery robots are about to descend on US college campuses," 20 Aug. 2019 The company that conceived Loop, however, and will distribute, clean, and refill all those containers, is tiny TerraCycle, a 302-employee startup in Trenton, N.J., whose CEO, Tom Szaky, founded the business 18 years ago in his Princeton dorm room. Fortune Editors, Fortune, "Change the World 2019: Where Business Creates Virtuous Circles," 19 Aug. 2019 When Javed sits in his darkened bedroom, pops a cassette into his Walkman and hits play, I’m transported back to my dorm room and my own moment of discovery. Keith Campbell, Dallas News, "'Blinded by the Light' captures how Bruce Springsteen reaches hungry hearts like mine," 9 Aug. 2019 My dorm mates, mostly farm girls away from home for the first time, had never met a Jew before. Longreads, "An Ocean Away From the Sanctuary of Manhattan, Signs of Peaceful Coexistence," 29 July 2019 Your dorm room will probably be small and not have much storage space. Jan Burns, Houston Chronicle, "Dorm room basics: What to pack, what to leave behind," 31 July 2019 Around 7,000 dorm rooms had been inspected at Lackland, with another 1,000 left to go. Sig Christenson, ExpressNews.com, "Mold found in 1,100 dorm rooms on Lackland," 31 July 2019

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First Known Use of dorm

1900, in the meaning defined above

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dorm

noun
\ ˈdȯrm How to pronounce dorm (audio) \

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